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Linux Mint Cinnamon Crash

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August 21, 2014 9:08:41 PM

So my Linux Mint 17 system is for some reason having a strange problem, when it boots it says Do you want to restart Cinnamon? Then it says under it "Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently in fallback mode." I have no idea what to do, it gives me the options yes or no when I press yes it crashes again, please help me out, I'm so confused.

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September 4, 2014 7:31:10 AM

Cinnamon requires graphics acceleration for some of it's fancier features. Accept fallback mode, and search "drivers" in bottom-left Mint menu. " Driver Manager" should come up, launch it. This should give you a list of drivers available for your graphics card. Select the one marked "stable", "recommended" or similar. This should fix your issue. If it doesn't please comment.

In future please post hardware specs as well, it speeds things up a lot sometimes.
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September 4, 2014 9:04:53 AM

Have you installed many applets/cinnamon extensions? These can cause cinnamon to crash..
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